Karachi expressway elicits protests

A new planning commission or an advisory body?

Indications are that the National Development Reforms Commission that will replace the Planning Commission will not have financial allocation powers

Will access to toilets guarantee women's security in rural India?

The Badaun rape incident shows how vulnerable women are to sexual violence when there are no toilets in homes

Dismal picture of Maharashtra's environment

The water supply data in rural areas

Scrap godown fire in Ghaziabad kills one

Prevention is cure

When preventive measures can fight encephalitis, is there a need for treatment in ill-equipped primary health centres?

Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health

Unhealthy surroundings kill more than other factors do

Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

SC agrees to subsidise five waste-to-energy plants

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

14 km from Pune, its footprint

Environmental degradation draining Pakistan’s economy: survey

Increasing urbanisation is causing air, water pollution

Science and Technology - Briefs

Waste dumpsites choke Chennai

Muddy Water

CHICKEN OUT

Cleansing chronicle

THE SANITARY CITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT·Martin V Melosi·John Hopkins University Press·Year&…

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

A look at world urban population

In court

No more hospitals

No land for best option: composting

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, does not have a municipal waste-treatment facility. Its only plant to treat solid waste, located …